Yahoo has received a healthy sum of much-needed cash now that its Alibaba deal has official closed.

Under the terms of the deal, Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba has paid Yahoo $7.6 billion to buy back half of the 40 percent of its shares that were owned by Yahoo. Yahoo received around $6.3 billion in cash and $800 million in preferred Alibaba shares. Alibaba has also paid Yahoo a one-time cash amount of $550 million related to an existing technology license agreement between the two.

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Journalist, software trainer, and Web developer Lance Whitney writes columns and reviews for CNET, Computer Shopper, Microsoft TechNet, and other technology sites. His first book, "Windows 8 Five Minutes at a Time," was published by Wiley & Sons in November 2012.
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